History YMMV / DeathProof

** Pam is so adorable when she's drunkenly declaring she won't sleep with Stuntman Mike...when he's RightBehindMe. Twice!

* {{Adorkable}}: Zoe would be straight up BadassAdorable, if her chipper demeanor and adorableness didn't just barely trump the fact that she's a nigh-indestructible MadeOfIron [[ActionGirl badass]]. How does she begin to try and convince Kim to do ship's mast? With the classic ''"I'll be your best friend!"''

* BrokenBase: Which set of protagonists do you prefer? When the film first came out, the second set won out due to having entertaining characters like Kim and Zoe who also [[spoiler: completely own Stuntman Mike in the end]]. However, they also are UnintentionallyUnsympathetic for some with how they treat Lee and Abernethy's dour attitude. The first set are sometimes considered annoying and ultimately pointless [[spoiler: since they get killed off suddenly]], but there are some who find them entertaining (especially Shanna and Pam) and wish they had more screentime. Then there are those who hated all the protagonists, and those who loved both sets.

* ValuesResonance:
** Laura Bogart noted that the film does have a "surprising insight about certain terrors of being a woman" that not a lot of pre Me Too stories touch on.
--> "Stuntman Mike is every Nice Guy™ who expects to be invited home from the bar because he bought you a drink; Kim, the bad-ass stunt driver, admits to carrying a gun because she fears being raped if she goes into the laundry room at midnight; and Abernathy worries that, as a single mother, she’ll be seen as unhip, and left behind by her friends."
** The film also features a majority female cast, with a nice set of diversity (three of the leads are women of colour) and not all of whom are conventionally attractive - with all its women being developed characters and/or entertaining {{One Scene Wonder}}s. While some provide {{Fanservice}}, not all do and overall the characters are quite sex positive (Arlene's lap dance is framed as something she didn't have to do if she didn't want to, and only happens because she chose it).

** Rose [=McGowan=] also stars [[spoiler: and is one of the victims]] in a film distributed by the Weinsteins.

* HollywoodPudgy: Not in the film itself, but Vanessa Ferlito is clearly a couple of sizes bigger than her more slender co-stars, and many fans called her fat or overweight because of this.

* TheScrappy: Abernathy is probably the least popular of the girls. She spends a good amount of time whining about Cecil sleeping with another woman as if they had been [[EntitledToHaveYou exclusive]] - when all they had done was ''hold hands'' (read: that's all she ''allowed'' him to do). She picks on Lee several times and eventually lies to Jasper that Lee is a porn actress, then leaves her alone with the creep. Never mind that she doesn’t prove herself indispensable during the confrontation with Stuntman Mike. Kim does 100% of the defensive driving and shoots him and both she and Zoe prove themselves more than capable of beating him to a pulp on their own. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also she curses a little too much]].

** The film also features a majority female cast, with a nice set of diversity (three of the leads are women of colour) and not all of whom are conventionally attractive - with all its women being developed characters and/or entertaining {{One Scene Wonder}}s. While some provide {{Fanservice}}, not all do and overall the characters are quite sex positive (Arlene's lap dance is framed as something she didn't have to do if she didn't want to, and only happens because she chose it).

* TheScrappy: Abernathy is probably the least popular of the girls. She spends a good amount of time whining about Cecil sleeping with another woman as if they had been [[EntitledToHaveYou exclusive]] - when all they had done was ''hold hands'' (read: that's all she ''allowed'' him to do). She picks on Lee several times and eventually lies to Jasper that Lee is a porn actress, then leaves her alone with the creep. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also she curses a little too much]].

* HarsherInHindsight: Creator/QuentinTarantino directing a film where a man kills women in car crashes is uncomfortable with the allegations from Creator/UmaThurman that he caused permanent damage to her by making her do a dangerous stunt drive on ''Film/KillBill''.
* LesYay: Kim and Zoe. In order to get Kim to play ship's mast, Zoe agrees to rub moisturiser on her ass after she gets out of the shower. There's a possibility this is intentional as the movie dropped several hints that they're a couple (but Kim does say she has a boyfriend). And Kim took Zoe's DisneyDeath a little harder than Abernathy.

* SlowPacedBeginning: Or, slow entire first half.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: As noted above, Abernathy. Her desire to 'cut loose' comes at the expense of leaving Lee alone with a potential rapist - after leading said man to believe that Lee was also a porn star.

* SlowPacedBeginning

* DracoInLeatherPants: Stuntman Mike obviously. He is played by Creator/KurtRussell after all.

* AwesomeMusic:

* TheScrappy: Abernathy is arguably the least popular of the girls. She spends a good amount of time whining about Cecil sleeping with another woman as if they had been [[EntitledToHaveYou exclusive]] - when all they had done was ''hold hands'' (read: that's all she ''allowed'' him to do). She picks on Lee several times and eventually lies to Jasper that Lee is a porn actress, then leaves her alone with the creep. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also she curses a little too much]].

** April March's "Chick Habit" aka the English version of France Gall's "Laisse tomber les filles".
** The little 'concert' Lee gives while Abernathy is dozing in the back seat. Mary Elizabeth Winstead does have a nice voice.
** The remastered version of The Coasters 'Down In Mexico', which plays over the lap dance (only in the European release).

* EthnicScrappy: Averted. Kim has all the recipes to qualify as she is quite stereotypically black. But she's also friggin badass and awesome. WordOfGod is that she's a DistaffCounterpart to Samuel L Jackson.

* FandomRivalry: Believe it or not, with ''Film/FromDuskTilDawn'' over one specific scene: each movie's {{Fanservice}} dance. The IMDB boards used to have discussions about whether Salma Hayek's dance with the snake was sexier than Arlene's lap dance to Stunt Man Mike.
* HarsherInHindsight: Quentin Tarantino directing a film where a man kills women in car crashes is uncomfortable with the allegations from Creator/UmaThurman that he caused permanent damage to her by making her do a dangerous stunt drive on ''Film/KillBill''.

* LesYay: Kim and Zoe. In order to get Kim to play ship's mast, Zoe agrees to rub moisturiser on her ass after she gets out of the shower. There's a possibility this is intentional as the movie dropped several hints that they're a couple. And Kim took Zoe's DisneyDeath a little harder than Abernathy.

* ItGetsBetter: People who don't enjoy the dialogue between the girls say that they should still stick through the movie to enjoy the final car chase.

* ParvumOpus: Even though it's not bad, this film is often cited as the nadir in the Tarantino catalog, an opinion that even Tarantino himself shares.

* AwesomeMusic: April March's "Chick Habit" aka the English version of France Gall's "Laisse tomber les filles".

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Zoe obviously. Shanna is also surprisingly popular due to her cute accent.
* EthnicScrappy: Averted. Kim has all the recipes to qualify as she is quite stereotypically black. But she's also friggin badass and awesome.
* LesYay: Kim and Zoe. In order to get Kim to play ship's mast, Zoe agrees to rub moisturiser on her ass after she gets out of the shower.
** There's a possibility this is intentional as the movie dropped several hints that they're a couple. And Kim took Zoe's DisneyDeath a little harder than Abernathy.

* TheScrappy: Abernathy is arguably the least popular of the girls. She spends a good amount of time whining about Cecil sleeping with another woman as if they had been exclusive - when all they had done was ''hold hands'' (read: that's all she ''allowed'' him to do). She picks on Lee several times and eventually lies to Jasper that Lee is a porn actress, then leaves her alone with the creep. Also she curses a little too much.

* ParvumOpus: This film is often cited as the nadir in the Tarantino catalog, an opinion that even Tarantino himself shares.

** ...And Kim doesn't?

* TheScrappy: Abernathy is arguably the least popular of the girls. She spends a good amount of time whining about Cecil sleeping with another woman as if they had been exclusive - when all they had done was ''hold hands'' (read: that's all she ''allowed'' him to do). She picks on Lee several times and eventually lies to Jasper that Lee is a porn actress, then leaves her alone with the creep. Also she curses a little too much.

* CompleteMonster: Stuntman Mike of ''Death Proof'' is a former stunt man and expert driver who becomes a serial killer of women by using his car as a murder weapon. He modifies the car to make it "100% Death Proof" to immunize himself from harm. Then he can use it for vehicular homicide by crashing into cars full of people and killing them in the process, or drive so dangerously that any passengers will die from the blunt force trauma caused by being thrown around in his car and hitting hard surfaces repeatedly. He extensively stalks his victims beforehand, and seems to derive sexual pleasure from his kills. He also toys with his prey, as he pursues a group of women attempting a stunt where one of them is on the hood of their car at high speed. He chases them down the road in a lengthy pursuit to see them terrified for their lives, getting kicks off the whole thing.

* AwesomeMusic: April March's "Chick Habit" aka the english version of France Gall's "Laisse tomber les filles".

* FanDisservice: Jungle Julia's long luscious legs [[spoiler: getting ripped off in a car crash]].

* DracoInLeatherPants: Stuntman Mike obviously. He is played by KurtRussell after all.